Gendered representations in swearing: bitch and bastard in the spoken BNC2014
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on February 20, 2026
Abstract
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This study examines how bitch and bastard construct gendered identities in contemporary British English conversation. Using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the Spoken BNC2014, it examines collocational patterns and “be+bitch/bastard” ...
This study examines how bitch and bastard construct gendered identities in contemporary British English conversation. Using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the Spoken BNC2014, it examines collocational patterns and “be+bitch/bastard” ...